This week was quite interesting. My personal situation at home has me trying to tackle a dilemma: the need for a job and the need for an internship. I need to find a way to somehow achieve both and I’m still nowhere near done with my portfolio, although my resume is looking quite nice at the moment, according to Professor McCabe who I’m staying in touch with from across the pond. Building a portfolio has been no easy task. Its beyond gathering your best works [which in itself takes time] but its about the presentation. How will you organize all of this in a coherent and interesting package that makes sense to the viewer and informs them of what you do and who you are. That’s the challenge I’m facing.
Luckily, things went well this week for my first dilema. I attended a work study orientation on the 8th and I was pleasantly surprised. In addition to the on campus sites, that City Tech provides, an outside program called Public Service Corps was there as well. They will place you in a field of your choice, in an internship program that pays you using the money allotted to you for work study through FAFSA. After reviewing your application, they set you up with an interview and things go on from there. I asked the lady, Linda if there were any graphic design opportunities and she said there were, so I quickly signed up. She said I’ll need to submit my resume and portfolio to which I assured her that I am working on.
Hopefully this goes through because it would be the perfect solution to my predicament. I’m a bit nervous about my portfolio though because I don’t feel up to par with whatever it is “up to par” means. As a student the real world is intimidating and as this is a real world opportunity, its quite the burden to deal with. Its not like a graphic internship at a school office, where things only exist in an ecosystem; depending on the place I end up in [hopefully] my work can be seen by many people, outside of a safe ecosystem. All in all, I’m excited and currently looking forward to finalizing my portfolio and going out to get this opportunity.
